The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The ink is wrong, Father. Matilda held the quill suspended over the parchment, the tip trembling not from cold, though the infirmary was a tomb of damp stone that swallowed the light by noon, but from the sheer, physical weight of the silence that had settled between her and Abbot Silas. The air smelled of boiled linen and old blood, a scent that had become so integrated into her own pores that...

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